List of head coaches of the all-female NBA match

Cheryl Reeve , coach of the Minnesota Links club, during the 2013 All-Female NBA All-Star Game on the coaching bridge of the West team

The List of WNBA All-Star Game head coaches includes the head coaches of the all-star match , who in this game lead teams consisting of the best basketball players of the Eastern and Western Conferences of the NBA . At the moment, Western mentors are noticeably ahead in victories of their opponents from the East with a score of 10: 4. According to the rules of the female NBA, coaches of the teams of East and West are assigned mentors of the teams that took part in the finals of last season, with the exception of matches of all the stars of 1999 , 2009 and 2017 .

In the first two seasons, four strongest association teams entered the VNBA playoffs, regardless of the place they occupied in one or another conference, where they played - the first with the fourth, and the second with the third, therefore in 1997 two clubs from the tournament played Eastern Conference, and in 1998 - from the Western. For this reason, in the first match of all VNBA stars, the coach of the East team decided to appoint a club coach, who last year won the regular season in the Eastern Conference. The Cleveland Rockers team became this club, so the East team was led by Linda Hill-MacDonald , and the coach of the West was traditionally the coach of the champion, who became the Houston Comets club that season ^[1] .

In 2009, for the first time in the history of the VNBA, a situation took place when the coach, leading his team to the champion title, was unable to take part in the all-star match of the next season. In 2008, the Detroit Shock and San Antonio Silver Stars teams took part in the final series of the tournament , so Dan Hughes , the Silver Stars coach, led the West. The East team was to be led by Bill Lambier , but on June 15, 2009, after only three meetings in the new season, he resigned from the post of Detroit head coach for family reasons and his desire to become the NBA head coach. By the time the head coaches were announced for the match of all VNBA stars in terms of the percentage of victories in the regular season of the Eastern Conference, the Indiana Team was in the lead, so Lin Dunn , the head coach of Indiana, took the place at the helm of the East team ^[2] .

In 2007, there was an identical situation when, at the end of the 2006 season, John Wisenant resigned from the post of head coach of the Sacramento Monarchs club, last year's finalist, but by the time the head coaches of the All-Star All-Star game were announced in the regular season of the Western Conference this season the same team was in the lead, so at the helm of the Western team stood his successor, Jenny Butchek , the new mentor of the "Monarchs" ^[3] . The situation was slightly different from the previous one in 2014 , when at the end of the 2013 season the head coach of the Atlanta Dream club, last year’s finalist, left Fred Williams , moving to a similar position in the Tulsa Shock team, but by the time the names of the match’s head coaches were announced All stars of the VNBA in the regular season of the Eastern Conference of the current season were led by Atlanta Dream, therefore, at the helm of the East team stood his successor, Michael Cooper , the new mentor of Dream ^[4] .

In the 2016 season, the format of the playoff tournament was again changed, according to which the two best clubs of the regular season, both from the Western Conference, went directly to the semifinals, while the remaining six played two more tickets among themselves. In the semi-finals, the leaders of the regular season easily outplayed their rivals, and in the final the teams from one conference met, so it was decided to appoint coaches of the best clubs of both conferences to be the coaches of the teams of East and West. Thus, the West team was led by Cheryl Reeve , and the same Bill Lambir ^[5] was to take the helm of the East team, but he was unable to fulfill his duties due to family circumstances. By the time of announcing the names of head coaches for the All-WNBA stars match, the Connecticut Sun club was in the lead in the regular season of the Eastern Conference, so Kurt Miller , Connecticut head coach took the place at the helm of the East team ^[6] . Houston Comets team mentor Van Chancellor , who was invited four times, Michael Cooper, Richie Adubato , Cheryl Reeve, Mike Thibault and Bill Lambier, three times, and Ann Donovan Brian Egler and Lin Dunn - twice.

In 2008 and 2012, matches of all VNBA stars were not held due to the Olympic Games in Beijing and London , and in 2004 and 2010, alternative matches of all stars called “ The Game in Radio City ” were held . Radio City " ) and" Stars in the Sun "( Eng. " Stars at the Sun " ), respectively. In 2004, Bill Lambier became the coach of the generalized team of all the stars of the female NBA, who was appointed to such a high post, being the mentor of the champion of the last season ^[7] ; on the contrary, in 2010, Brian Egler, the mentor of the team that at the time of his announcement, was appointed coach of the star team behalf of the leader in the percentage of victories in the regular season this season ^[8] .